Note: This post is part of a series on Bali. To start at the beginning, see The Bali Diary: Day […]

Note: This post is part of a series on Bali. To start at the beginning, see The Bali Diary: Day […]
Note: This post is part of a series on Bali. To start at the beginning, see The Bali Diary: Day 1.] […]
Note: This post is part of a series on Bali. To start at the beginning, see The Bali Diary: Day 1.] […]
We stepped out of the airport and into the first fresh air we’d inhaled in forty-seven hours. Hot and humid, […]
On my first date with Chris, we met at a little restaurant in downtown Chicago. It was a sunny day […]
No doubt about it. The weather outside is frightful. The National Weather Service is calling for a windchill of -52 […]
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But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the […]
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Here come the earth movers; They’re coming to take it away. Topsoil, spruce, stumps, and weeds; Oh how we’ve pined […]
Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities, Forget about your worries and your strife; I mean the bare […]
First of all, let me begin by pointing out a change in our blog’s subtitle. As you can see, it […]
After four months in Italy, we’ve finally returned to the yurt. If our first trip out to the property is […]
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I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. Poems are made by fools like me, […]
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“Oh no, don’t do that,” my mom said when I called to tell her that I’d be staying at the […]
Fly fishing for trout: for me it’s not about catching a lot of, or big, fish. It’s about so much […]
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